Legal Opinion
John Batterton v. The Texas General Land Office
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 12, 1986No. 84-1961PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GEE, Circuit Judge: ■
Today’s case requires us to decide whether the dismissal of four employees of the Texas General Land Office (GLO) violated their constitutional rights. The appellant employees maintain that a Texas statute grants them a property interest in their jobs or, in the alternative, that informal practices within the department do so, as well as that their discharges violated first amendment rights. The trial court entered summary judgment against them, and we affirm.
Appellants were employees of the GLO in January 1983, when appellee Garry Mauro took office as Land Commissioner.…
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